Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 eBook

The Complaynt of Scotland.—­I believe
there has not been discovered recently any fact relative
to the authorship of above-mentioned poem, and that
the author is,

“Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount,
Lord Lyon King-at-Arms.”

W.B.

Note Books (No. 3. p. 43., and No. 7. p. 104.)—­I
beg to state my own mode, than which I know of none
better. I have several books, viz.,
for History, Topography, Personal and Family History,
Ecclesiastical Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria.
At the end of each volume is an alphabet, with six
columns, one for each vowel; in one or other of which
the word is entered according to the vowel which first
appears in it, with a reference to the page.
Thus, bray would come under B.a; church
under C.u.; and so forth.

S.S.S.

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MISCELLANIES.

MSS. of Casaubon.—­There is a short
statement respecting certain MSS., now existing, of
the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the
Parker Society—­Whitaker’s Disputation
on Holy Scripture, edited and translated by Professor
Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dublin,
which I conceive is one of those facts which might
be of service at some future time to scholars, from
having been recorded in your columns:—­

Whitaker having observed—­

“One Herman, a most
impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures
are of no more avail than
Aesop’s fables, apart from the
testimony of the church.”—­(Parker
Soc. transl., p. 276.)

Professor Fitzgerald appends the following “note:”—­

“Casaubon, Exercit. Baron.
I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully, attributed this
to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in Primate
Marsh’s library, at St. Sepulchre’s, Dublin,
he corrects himself thus: ’Non est
hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus in Praefat.
Controvers. I. Quaest. S. p. 314.’
If a new edition of those Exercitations be ever
printed, let not these MSS. of that great man,
which, with many other valuable records, we owe to
the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence
of Marsh, be forgotten.”